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Attitudes about the industrialozation of food have changed greatly over the past several decades. What used to be considered a scientific miracle now seems like a horrific joke: piglets being reared in incubators that look like tiny iron lungs; fish raised in tanks of runoff water -- and growing at a

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Attitudes about the industrialozation of food have changed greatly over the past several decades. What used to be considered a scientific miracle now seems like a horrific joke: piglets being reared in incubators that look like tiny iron lungs; fish raised in tanks of runoff water -- and growing at a remarkable rate! -- from a nuclear power plant. These scenatios and more are presented in Diet as it traces the rise and fall of processed food, from promising cure for malnourishement to eventually being linked to obesity, heart disease, and cancer.

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Alternate Title: Horizon (Television program); Diet, a Horizon guide.

Additional Contributors: Steinitz, Alex

Publisher: New York, NY : - Films Media Group , Films for the Humanities and Science

Pages: 52

Language: English

Credits: Producer/director, Alex Steinitz ; editor, Andrew Cohen.

Performers: Presenter, Susan Jebb.

Notes: DVD-R.
Title from main menu.
Closed-captioned.
This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
Originally released under the title Diet : a Horizon guide as a segment of the BBC program Horizon.

Statement of responsibility: BBC

Physical description: 1 videodisc (52 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

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